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This comic is way better than I was expecting. The early parts were kind of hard to read because it was more sad and familiar than sad and funny in a way. That said, Asotil is literally the greatest thing.
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Young Freud posted:I'll admit, everything turned around at Countass' dinner. Just when you think Katia is about to fall even lower, Asotil busts in the most epic way possible. This is indeed the exact line that sold me on him. More than the other stuff anyway. That and "It rained last night, so he suspects he will have to redraw the horse’s angry eyebrows."
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Jul 31, 2011 02:43
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EvilKosh posted:I'm not sure what you win or what your definition of winning is, but good luck with that I guess? I'm just going to laugh at you, and that will be it. I give this guy like maybe Three popped collars out of five. On the "Heh"ometer.
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Aug 1, 2011 12:57
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Zenzirouj posted:Huh. Kazerad showing up in the thread wasn't something I anticipated. Well, I guess I'll pull a flip-flop and post a little criticism that I didn't really feel the need to make an MSPA account for: I feel like we're not seeing enough of Katia's personality, specifically what she's like when she's drunk. Right now all we get are her taking a drink, a blackout, then her waking up. This is good for comedy purposes along the lines of "oh, look at this strange situation you've woken up in you little scamp!" But as a result, we basically only see her when she's a quivering neurotic mess trying to make up for mistakes we never saw. So our view of Katia is skewed heavily towards her sober side, in which she's nice and helpful but has a string of bad luck. But for Quill-Weave and other characters, the other half is when she's drunk and trashing a house. So when those characters react accordingly, the audience can't help but feel like Katia always deserves a second chance when maybe she actually doesn't. I think it's important to see her fail in a way that's not adorable and unintentional. I dunno man then you go down the road of bashing on the alcoholic that's legitimately trying to change and I don't know. Chemical dependencies are a hell of a thing. That just doesn't seem classy.
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Aug 2, 2011 00:58
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Reiley posted:Derivative work is by no means uncommon on the internet. What is uncommon, however, is people who deal and lean so heavily on fanwork rising to stand peer among other creators who built their readerships without putting someone else's sticker on their package. That you believe you'll be an exception using one party's visual style and another party's intellectual property to sell your story is certainly interesting , and I wish you the best of luck. However, I will strongly advise against telling people the reasons you're using fanwork to build an audience like you have in this tread, since your reasons provided all sound manipulative and ethically bankrupt. If the terms manipulative and ethically bankrupt are terms you feel comfortable throwing around with something as trivial as "gauging audience areas of interest and how to engage them" then I...I think you might want to get out in the real world. I literally guarantee people are doing poo poo that actually warrant those terms, you'd do well to have a better frame of reference.
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Aug 2, 2011 16:30
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ShineDog posted:It's less the Oblivion stuff (Which is an affectionate parody* and I can't hate it) and more the MSPA stuff that gets me, I mean, obviously this is far less obtuse than MSPA and has a palette that I can actually look at, but theres a lot of structural aping in a way that isn't satirical, and doesn't really add anything, it's just the same because, I assume, of the aforementioned desire to attract a crowd. Well, I think the Oblivion aspect isn't too minor All signs thus far point to Katia being the main character from Oblivion. She dreams non-stop of what seems to be a caricature of the Emperor, the Dragon Amulet is a pretty dead giveaway (think that's what it's called anyway).
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Aug 2, 2011 21:35
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Dolash posted:Update Someone wasn't reading closely enough, the book was packed between his herculean glutes.  Totally different.
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Sep 3, 2011 13:27
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Well that's one way to remind the audience that Gro-Upp is not a likeable character. At all. He's a whimsical murderer.
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Sep 5, 2011 18:20
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Thundarr posted:Gro-Upp IS the hero of Oblivion. He's a genre-savvy sociopath who has nearly everyhing conveniently worked out for him in advance and a built-in reason for being tossed into prison in the near future. It is little wonder that Katia is powerless to inconvenience him, let alone stop him. No. Katia is the hero of Oblivion, that's been made fairly clear by her dreams of Emperor Uriel and the amulet. Gro-Upp is just a parody of a player character's typical behavioral patterns.
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Sep 6, 2011 23:15
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Volmarias posted:Surely no one else can possibly have dreams of the emperor and the amulet. Good thinking, Lou. If you wouldn't classify these dreams, their consistency, and their content as unusual I don't know what to tell you! And the name of the comic. Volmarias posted:Seriously. He's not dead, he's just going to get necromanced back to life. Elder Scrolls necromancy does not work that way so probably not. Sadly. 
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Sep 7, 2011 15:12
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Volmarias posted:Magic doesn't work by making epic cat burns either. I'm expecting artistic license. That's an issue of motivation to do magic, not the actual source of the magic. Katia's magic is wholly standard and within the realms of normal Elder Scrolls bullshit. So don't hold your breath on the Dmitri thing.
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Sep 8, 2011 02:42
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Raserys posted:Asotil will die horribly at some point. His existence improves Katia's life, and that cannot be. Asotil's existence improves the Elder Scrolls universe 
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Sep 10, 2011 03:21
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MrBims posted:Have you now seen how much easier it was to write in the active voice? Someone might want to inform them this is not a true thing.
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Dec 20, 2011 20:40
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The Clanfear's "uhhhhhh" expression is just the best.
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Mar 27, 2012 20:22
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Gnome de plume posted:It was nice of Stephane to get Sigrid to prepare magic dipping sauce for Katia, even though he appears to regard her as something he has to scuff off his shoe. That's because real breadsticks are so good they're almost magical. Can you imagine ACTUALLY magical breadsticks?
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Mar 27, 2012 22:42
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Nothing could be more inspiring than a one man extinction event.
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